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Was it part of that American "let's make spelling make more sense" movement that "corrected" the spelling of 'colour' to 'color', 'metre' to 'meter', etc?
I dunno. I don't recall seeing it in the lists of Websterized things.
I only started thinking about it when my mother started sending email.
except now "lense" looks okay to me. But it looked so wrong just a second ago! Oh, and now it looks wrong again. I am confused.
Blame Schrodinger's Cat.
I don't know, Plei. My guess is either the American version is changed to distinguish from the British (color/colour), or is the more archaic version that was moved away from in Britain (fall/autumn).
Which is really no use.
They claim they made all those up too, though.
I occasionally claim to be the King of the Moon. I think they're both rather spurious claims. But who knows? Either way, there's jargon I hear regularly, and there's Varietyspeak that I don't.
It's quite possibly a distinction that occurs only in my head, and any excuse to justify my irrational hatred of Varietyspeak will do. I can live with that.
Was it part of that American "let's make spelling make more sense" movement that "corrected" the spelling of 'colour' to 'color', 'metre' to 'meter', etc?
This movement, incidentally, being why the Red Sox are spelled with an "x."
Today I saw "friends" spelled "frenz". I almost wept weeped.
I was just reading a book that talked about "programmes" that are parts of "organizations" -- Canadian, right? With the UK/US combo dealie?
I was just reading a book that talked about "programmes" that are parts of "organizations" -- Canadian, right? With the UK/US combo dealie?
Um, we contains multitudes?
[edit: Nevermind. To drink coffee makes our reading English possible.]
This movement, incidentally, being why the Red Sox are spelled with an "x."
Technically, two different movements. Noah Webster, way back, is the guy who dropped the U from color, on basis of the New American Awesomeness And Rightness (and Not-Britishness) after the revolutionary war. There was another movement of "spelling simplification" in the 1830s-40s, which would be why Melville Dewey spent his latter years signing his name Melvil Dui. And then there was Teddy Roosevelt, 50 years after that, who tried to ram a standardized simplification plan through the federal government, and caused an uproar. The Red Sox are a part of that last movement.